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Feeling rejected? Mushrooms could help
In the uninitiated, that experience of ostracism typically evokes powerful hurt feelings. Feeling rejected? Mushrooms could help by Melissa Healy Psilocybin, the mind-altering chemical that gives some mushrooms magical properties, can do more than induce trippy states. A new study finds that it reduces the sting of social rejection. By tracking how, exactly, psilocybin affects the brain’s chemistry and activity levels, the research suggests new ways to treat the faulty social processing that comes with many mental illnesses. Psychiatric disorders such as depression, borderline personality disorder and social anxiety disorder are often perpetuated by a nasty mind trick: sufferers are inclined to perceive rejection, criticism and negative judgments from people…
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Borderline or Bipolar: Objective Data Support a Difference
When euthymic bipolar patients played (ostensibly with another person, though the actual partner was a computer), they made choices very like control patients, choosing to cooperate almost 75% of the time. But patients with BPD cooperated only about 50% of the time (ANOVA difference, P = .03). Borderline or Bipolar: Objective Data Support a Difference News | April 12, 2016 | Bipolar Disorder, Borderline Personality, DSM-5 By James Phelps, MD When a patient presents with episodes of depression, irritability, and emotional lability (especially tears and anger, with rapid changes), might he or she have borderline personality disorder (BPD)? Or could it be rapid cycling bipolar disorder (BD)? Although there are…
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There is much to learn about self-injury
Of note is that Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) people say they actually feel better after hurting themselves. There is much to learn about self-injury Michael Kulla, For the Poughkeepsie Journal 12:56 p.m. EST March 4, 2016 This article is about young people who cut, scratch, burn, carve, interfere with wound healing or bang their heads against a solid object. Tattooing and piercing are usually not considered maladaptive because they are culturally sanctioned forms of expression. The intent of harming oneself per se is not suicidal and is referred to as Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI). NSSI is especially prevalent among adolescents with approximately 1 in 6 engaging in this behavior at least once.…
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17 things to never say to a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
“You’re not ill, you’re just being an attention-seeking arsehole.” 17 things to never say to a girl with Borderline Personality Disorder By Charlotte Dingle 2 March 2016 1. Nothing. Going to bed on an argument isn’t our style. Whilst you’ve casually dismissed it as a minor disagreement and all but forgotten about it, we’re worrying that you hate us and will never speak to us again. So please, stay awake long enough to text us back and tell us it’s OK. 2. “Aren’t you overreacting?” BPD has been described as having no “emotional skin”. We’re psychologically raw and exposed and as such we feel things, good and bad, very deeply.…
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Therapists’ Fear of Borderline Personality Disorder Persists
Relationship instability is a feature of BPD, and clinicians may be wary of patients with whom establishing a therapeutic bond could be difficult. Therapists’ Fear of Borderline Personality Disorder Persists Tori Rodriguez, MA, LPC March 01, 2016 Many therapists share the general stigma that surrounds patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Some even avoid working with such patients because of the perception that they are difficult to treat. As reported in Social Science & Medicine last year, interviews with 22 mental health clinicians in the United States1 suggest that the BPD diagnosis “can sometimes operate as a cue to healthcare providers that they should anticipate this patient will be hard…
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‘She was volatile, unstable and impulsive’: Marilyn Monroe most likely had borderline personality disorder, new book reveals
Marilyn Monroe suffered from severe mental distress. Her symptoms included a feeling of emptiness, a split or confused identity, extreme emotional volatility, unstable relationships, and an impulsivity that drove her to drug addiction and suicide all textbook characteristics of a condition called borderline personality disorder. ‘She was volatile, unstable and impulsive’: Marilyn Monroe most likely had borderline personality disorder, new book reveals While for many, Marilyn Monroe is one of the most enduring sex symbols of our time, behind her perfect curves and sultry personality, lay a complex and troubled woman. And more than that – it is likely that the iconic actress suffered from borderline personality disorder, says science…